Nikk Conneman M.D. is a Neonatologist and yoga practitioner who focuses on compassionate care for newborns with serious health problems and their families.

Nikk is working to change a healthcare system that encourages health care workers to avoid emotional involvement with their patients and families. Nikk practices and teaches deep presence in the situations he is involved in, which often involve high mortality rates for the infants he is treating. Nikk is also the director of the NIDCAP training program at Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He travels extensively teaching patient and family centered individualized care.

Additionally, having attended the yoga teacher training where my wife and I met, Nikk and I catch up on old times!

As I mention in the beginning of the episode, I wish every healthcare professional could hear this one – I think it’s that important.

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Known as a teacher’s teacher with an incredibly deep understanding of the human body, Robert Sherman rose from the early aerobics and fitness movement

to become a developer of instructor programs for everyone from Reebok to Beach Body (of P90X fame).

Robert’s programs are all based on the foundational idea that what you do with your body in life should inform how you train you body on a regular basis. He is constantly refining his teaching, always exploring the “why” of movements in order to better inform everyone from his private clients, to his group students, to the next generation of teachers that he reaches through his instructor programs.

We explore a wide range of topics from his early days in the aerobics movement, to mediation, to the common biases of yoga teachers, to his incredibly deep understanding of the human body and much more!

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Christina Washington found yoga as a means of coping with major challenges in her life.

A newer student to yoga and meditation, Christina was reluctant to come on the podcast, feeling that she would have little to contribute. However, we are all making a journey along a similar path, and those who are newer to the journey have valuable contributions that are particularly relatable to beginning students.

I was so happy to Christina on Practically Conscious, as her story provided tons of valuable insights into the benefits of these practices for all of us. My wife Darina participated in the conversation to make things even better. This was one of my favorite interviews of all time!

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